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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I mean, he didn’t say he won’t *announce* his retirement and give them a chance to confirm his replacement in advance during the lame duck

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He should be done for the season

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Those seem like two sides of the same coin. Surely a state is entitled to determine on a statewide basis whether its law enforcement officers will cooperate with ICE?

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wouldn’t there still be an anti-commandeering problem?

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m confused about everything going on procedurally here. How can a court of appeals order a district court to enter final judgment on an appeal from a TRO?

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Extremely confused how a court can enter a permanent injunction before the defendants have even responded to the complaint

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Do they think “Amy Acton likes to drink” is a winning message in…..Ohio?

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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thanks for teaching me hockey, Barry. Legend.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I guess you still have to teach it because the bar exam still makes people memorize elements of crimes. And basic concepts like mens rea are important. But we spent a huge chunk of my class on different degrees of murder, when in the real world, those crimes are defined by jx-specific statutes

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve often wondered why substantive criminal law is the mandatory course. As someone who now practices criminal law, crim pro is easily the more practically applicable course. These days, the elements of crimes are mostly defined by statute, and there are easy ways to look them up

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Is he giving them permission to claim to be him? If yes, that’s bad. If no, that’s also bad and he should put a stop to it

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’ve been wondering if the reason Main Justice vetoed a section 242 charge is that it would mean acknowledging that people in the unlawfully have constitutional rights

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Doesn’t even seem like this is a leak. Seems like the AUSA told this directly to the attorneys for the victim

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There is precedent for advance confirmations like this, but they raise a lot of questions and are ripe for abuse

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There is a good chance that this is what Justice Alito has in mind. If Democrats win the Senate, he announces his retirement effective some future date, and Republicans can still confirm his replacement during the lame duck period.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’d also put it into the category of a frivolous argument. You’re asking the court to resolve the case on a ground that has nothing to do with the law

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American Outlaws @americanoutlaws.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The American Outlaws implore @ussoccer.com to reject the FIFA Forward proposal. Stand up to this gross overreach of greed. Protect our sport from those who think they can own it. #USMNT #USWNT #FIFA #WorldCup #fansfirst

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Pretty notable it’s written by Judge Bress!

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Judges can, and do, overrule claims of Fifth Amendment privilege

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The U.S. Attorney is just an executive branch officer. Courts decide the validity of executive appointments all the time. The fact that the person is physically located in the district and practices in that court doesn’t seem to me to come close to hitting the normally high bar for recusal

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s been done in every one of these cases, but the idea that the judges of a district have to recuse from deciding whether their district’s U.S. Attorney is validly serving seems made up and a bit ridiculous. I can see it more here where the court appointed him, but Bastian didn’t vote on that

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Issuing subpoenas to reporters without first reading (or even looking for!) Second Circuit cases on…..subpoenas to reporters…. is the type of thing that should be met with harsh sanctions

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Presumably that’s why nobody dissented

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yeah, I’m actually not sure this order does anything to district courts. It grants a stay in a specific case without providing any reasoning. If anything, it could be seen as a rejection of the government’s request to say something in a published opinion that would foreclose claims in other cases

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It’s actually the opposite! England went to Joe’s Barbecue in Kansas City a couple days ago, and it’s apparently powering them through amp.kansascity.com/sports/fifa-...

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England players feast at staple KCK barbecue joint before third-place game

As their time in Kansas City winds down, the British made sure to stop by this KCK barbecue joint before parting ways.

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Never in a million years thought I would hear this from someone at U.S. Soccer, even though it’s obviously correct. Fitting it came from @ngc.bsky.social, who is a principled leader that the federation is very lucky to have

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Another person who won the diversity lottery: the referee of today’s World Cup semifinal game

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

It’s bizarre to me that they are focusing on Kavanaugh’s opinion is if he was a necessary vote. Even if you flip him, it doesn’t flip the result

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Calling those three “non-loyalists” seems like a stretch, but confirming anyone after what Republicans did with the Gorsuch seat would be pretty embarrassing. Fetterman would probably do it though

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The idea that Alito won’t announce his retirement the second Republicans lose the Senate seems like a pipe dream to me. That’s obviously what’s going to happen. No way he accepts the risk of having to stay 6 more years or longer

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Funnily enough, Neil Eggleston is apparently the chair of FIFA’s Appeals Committee (though I don’t believe he’s deciding this appeal)

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I would like to introduce the view of a living Constitution set forth in that dissent to the Bruen test

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There are people on these rosters who weren’t alive when we had golden goal

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In a case in which this isn’t arguably at issue. I remember when we used to hate advisory opinions

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

There are lots of talented junior lawyers on the market, whether they’re coming out of clerkships or lateraling after 1-2 years. I think a firm could do very well prioritizing hiring these semi-known commodities over unproven 1Ls. But the biggest firms are too risk-averse to try it

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I agree with this. I also think it’s kind of unsavory because it often results in the dissenting judge predicting what the en banc court will do before they’ve even heard argument

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I like JP as much as anyone (original Atlanta Thrashers fan here) but he is pretty rough now. Somewhere around 90+3 yesterday he said something like “we’ve already had our hydration break.” Like…..obviously? You might as well be saying they already had halftime

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13/06/2026

Folarin Balogun, born in New York to Nigerian parents. People like JD Vance would say he's not *really* American when, in fact, he's the epitome of American. 🇺🇸

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I think people are just over him taking potshots at U.S. Soccer years after he got left at the altar

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Every second-cycle coach we’ve had this century either got fired before the end of the cycle (Bradley, Klinsmann, Berhalter) or failed massively at their second World Cup (Arena)

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This is literally insane. Beyond insane

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

As one would expect when doing this for the first time, she seems obviously correct

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

People should be disbarred for this

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

One of my favorite species of concurrence is where a judge decides to issue an advisory opinion on an issue after concluding he lacks jurisdiction to consider it

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Did a judge issue a warrant based on this??

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

That was my initial reaction, but it looks like the appeal wasn’t filed until after she already became a circuit judge

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Has to be a typo that wasn’t caught. CA9 has macros that create template opinions, including, I think, that first line. I wonder if she first got put into the Ninth Circuit’s system when she was a DJ sitting by designation on an earlier case, and the court forgot to update the system

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I have been waiting for someone to take a shot at this!

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Alex Botoman @abotoman.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Is it only people staying in New York who take NJT to MetLife? I’d imagine that’s going to be a primary transport method regardless of whether people are coming from

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